The Sun. — London, England, 1810-09-19 00:00:00

which the English make. them feel at present, nad admitted them to the honour of fighting, at, side in his great comEtalgtw' The horrors committed by the English are de-! Ilorablej - they cut down . the corn, destroy 3ouses,land make a desert Of that' unfinisimate country vhich 'they were invited` to defend: 'Trey thus violate the law ot, nation and of war. This nation is accustomed to'resPect nothing' Its 'interest tor the 'Moment - is - its only law.. • " It is the division of Loi,on, of the cilrps'of the ,Duke of ElC'hingen, which has carritll on the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo, • and Mmeida. ,The two other - divisions of that corps, , A he three, diviSions of 'the second corps; and the liree diii= signs of the corps of 'the'Duke of `Abrapies, have not yet fired a musquet. The Duke of Ahratites is *at Ledestna ; General .itegnier, cointnanding the 2d corps, is at Zarza Mayor. " Tlie:sbidleis are in good health, the army is:well provisiOned,:'and bUrn ng with desite to teach the English - tharks inch we have already taught the diviSion of Ciaufurd: The Emperor may rely on the bravery and dispositions . of the armyi as well as' on my zeal andrespeaful devotion. . " I have the honour, &à. • (Signed) MAgsEN,A, Marshal, " Fort Conception, Prince of Essling, CM - nu:ander in Aug, 28, iSiQ. Chief of the Anny ofPartugal." COPY OF SUMMONS TO THE ENGLISH GOVERNOR OF ALMEIDA. • "Camp before Almetik, Aug. 27, !Sl°. • " M. GovEßNon,—The town of Almeida is in flames;. all my besieging artillery is battering it, and the English army cEninot come to your relief. Sur render, then, to the generosity of the arrnies of his AlajeSty the Ernperor and King : offer you ho nourable terms: To induce you to accept them, con Sider what tool; place..at Ciudad Rodrigo, the de plorable state in which that To .)..n now is, and the ' misfortunes whicli'are reserved for Almeida, if you prolong an iiseless . defence. '‘‘ Receive, M. GOvernor, , the assurances of .;my high cOnsideraticin., (Signed} " M ASS ENA." Capitulation granted ill the name of his Majesty the Ern. peror,,of the French and King of Italy, Protectdr of the Cont,.;;dertion of the Rhine, &c. &c. by th e M ars h a l, Prir:cerit Esst.rrsc, Conimakyler in - Chief - of the 4rmy of to M. the English General .Lox, Governor •of Airm:ida, for. the surrender of that place, to the troops of - his ivlajesty : • • - • • ART. I. The garriion shall be prisoners of war, with the ; • honours of war !their arms,• which they' shall deposit on the glacis of the place. 'I he militia shall retur n t o t h e i r homes, alter having . • 'deposited their arms ; the garrison are not,to serve during the &present war against France or her allies. - • 'II. ,The Officers of every description, and the soldiers, ,shall retain, 'the former their swords, and the' latter their 'baggage only. • • • . , 111. Theinliabitards shall enjoy their property, and shall not-be disturbed.fig their opinions. • • . IV. The military stores and. artillery shall remain at the disposal of the French army, and shall be given up to the • Commandant of Artillery. V. The magazirles, chests, &c. shall be given up to French Commissaries' appointed for that efled. • VI." The plans and memorials of the fortress shall be given - up to the Commandant of Engineers of the French army. VII. The sick of the English and Portuguese army shall be taken care of and maintained at the expense of the French army, and on their recovery shall follow the destination of the garrison. . . (signed) . 41 MASS E NA, Prince of Essling, Sze. 4 0 WI L LIAM COX. Governor of Alrheida" " Camp before Altneida, August 27. • List of Stores found in the Fortress of Almeida. • Twenty bushels of flour, 300,000 rations of biscuits, Goo fanegas of cons, 7.0 of rye, 2ocio of •Turkey corn, sob quin tals of ,rice, 400 arobas of salt- provisions, 12 quintals of salt provisions in barrels, 34 tuns of wine, at 700 bottles each,. 2 pipeS of brandy; about 7 0 bottles, 20. pipes of vinegar, s o ' fanegas beans, zoOolanegas of bailey, 300 fanegas of bran, Sao quintals of straw, goon quintals of wood,. and about rOOO coverlids. VIENNA, Aue. 3dbattal ions of infantry are to be reduced; and - the companies 'which remain are not to consist of more than 100 men. The /Austrian peace establishment of infantry will then consist of 108 battalions, 'amounting in the whole io nearly 60,00 which, with the cavalry, artil lery, and other corps, will make a total of 90,060 men, in time of peace. Little alteration has been made in the artillery and cavalry; and_ the labours at the fortresses are discontinued. ScHAFFHAUSEN, .AUGUST 22.—The Canton of Berne has .published a new law respecting the cen sorship of book, which has occasioned a great sen sation in Switzerland. The different branches of • printing and bookselling are only to be carried on by licensed persons, whose licenses are to be annually renewed. No Wilting, book, or periodical work, is' - to be sold without the authority of the Commission . of Censorship; and no works are to be printed in ' the Canton, which have net been first approved' of by the same authority. VIENNA, AUG. 17.—The new taxes, which have • been amiounced for some tirne, will shortly be ex acted. All &sses of society, with the exception of the indigent,' will be subjected Kr them ; and they • will not on extend to real property, but to profes sional income. • Our finances will receive considerable benefit from the suppression of the 3d battalions 'of our German regiments. They Will be disbanded, and replaced by the Lanclwelir, ho in time of peace ;are to 'serve ,%ithout - pay, and only to be exercised on SUndays and holidays: SCILLA, AUG. 25.--Our flotilla ha.rthis day Sup ported a combat which does it the greatest honour. Since the 15th the greater fart of the boats which were in the anchorage-of Scilla, had repaired to the left of tine Ponta da'PezzO. Tiiis determined the enemy to reinfoice his line in .the interior of the strait, with it'frigate, a corvette, and a brig, which fiad before anchored to the north-west of the Light house of Messina. Last night,, t one in the morn ing, his Majesty ordered twenty armed boats to advance for the- purpose of firing chain-shot into toe enemy's camp, on the oppoiite shore. - ff hey approached so near that the firipg corn inenced, Whst.h caused an alarm ; more than 200 cannon-shots Were tired without effect, and the boats regained their anchorage without having sus tatile4 any loss. s - This morning the enemy wishing to act on the otiensiv his turn, heat icokards the Punta (10 Pezzo do gun-boats, a frigate,ia corvette; and a brig ; e tii - ere prepared for the •r.rinbal,4tid the King gave orders to let . thetii advance within cannon-shot, which left our line exposed to the enemy's fire for two hours,. without a shot bein g returne d. Hi s Ma , j 4. esty then perceiving that the enemy's vessels were dri!ep alonk : hy . the current, ordered the "divisions of Bourgourg and of Cosa, to put out and attack them, wliil.the division of. B iusan was ordered to make ;over to the camp , of the enemy, which was vie prived' of its line of:gun-boats. At the:firSt bullet wltieb fell in ..the camp, all the soldiers -terew ifiemSelves into their trenches, and our troops woe already under - arms,. 'prepared: for embn kation, when the enemy perceNiug the m ovement, plied all thei - oars and sails to gain their line of defence, and to Oppose the, threatened debJekation, which woul4 ceitaihly• have been effeded, if the current had been stronger. Atter this, the firing recom menced with new vivacity, and 13 of our gun-boats, protetted by a single battery of 3 cannon, support ed the .whole effect of he broadsides of tie frigate, corvette, and . brig. This last vessel was struck with more than to balls, and then abandoned the corn 'bat. A boat,. with the English Commandant on board; was pierC, aby a b.itl , and sunk before our eyes in the middle of the channel. Three or four' of the enemy's gun-boats wereulso swamped, and more were got off 'by towing. The enemy have sittferedconsiderably ; for during an hour, our divi sionS - raked their : line in all direalihns; almost all our gun-boats were struck, but one only was sWamped, which however will be (it for sea to-• marrow. We had about ten men killed or wound ed. This glorious Combat' lasted six hours, during which more than 4000 shots were fired un both sides. The whole army, spectators of it, have done justice to the marine;_ and such as the en thusiasm which the marines_and soldiers reciprocally communicated, that when his Majesty passed along thwline, on all sides were heard - a thtiusand cries, :For Sicily ! For Sicily !“ EISENAgiI, SEPT, 3.—The day before yes'nrday a calamitou, event took place here. About nine in the, evening a convoy of ammunition was pa:;3ing through our town.' The three first Waggons, .vhich were mostly laden with cartridges for cannon, took fire ; the , explosion was terrible, the adjoining houses were blown into the air w ith a dreadful. crash. The fire caught both sides of t=ie street called the Monnengasse, .which was wholly destroyed. Thir ty-eight persons ,have pe4ihed. Fortunately the rest of the convoy was moved back in time• to pre vent the spreading of the explosion. PARIS, SEPT.- 13.—An Imperial I>cree, dated from the Palace cf St. Cloud, &pt. 12, contains. the following regulations: Art. I. The proprietors or consignees ofcolonial . produce which ,has been subjected to Holland to a duty of 40 or 50 per cent. ad valorem, according to the period. of its declaration, must, before the iit of October, Pay three duties, either in. mousy or in bands, with sufficient security. ". 2. The said produce, on which the duties shall not have been made good by the time fixed in the preceding article, shall be confiscated. !! 3. Those who have this produce in their ware houses by. consignment only, shall, by the effect of the' confiscation, be fteed from all responsiudity to the proprietors. " 4. The colonial produce pointed out in the tarif annexed 40 our decree of the 31st July, 1810, which, in execution of the 10th article of the said said decree, have not been declared before the tst of September, 'are confiscated. " 5. The Officers ot the Customs shall, without delay, make the necessary •searches and visits for discovering the Said merchandize. They.shall have ltk a fiol what is produced by•the sale of what they shall discover and seize. • • "- 6. Every individual who shall make known to the Officers of the Customs the places where the goods are concealed that have been withdrawn from declaration, shall recover:a fifth of their produce on sale. In this case the Officers shall have only a tenth. " 7. Ad civil and military authoritiei are required to lend their aid to the Officers of the Customs. " 8. Our Dire6tor General of Customs shall giVe, the necessary orders, that the searches and visits be made with exactness,. and that the merChandize dis-. covered, as well as that Confiscated, tin default of payment of the duties, be conveyed .to AntWerp, to be there sold. 9. Our Minister of Finance is charged with le execution of the present Decree. . . (Signed) ." ".NAPOLEON.". Another Imperial• Decree of the same date, in re gulation of the currency of France, Orders, that from ihe ,daze of the Decree, the 'gold coin of 48 'ivies Tournois shall be valued at 47 francs 20 cents ; ,the - gold coin of 24 livres Tournois at'2B.Y. ; the silver coin of 6 byres Tournois at 5 !lyres 60 cents; and the silver coin of 3.livres Tournois at 2 francs 75 cents. their Flit, arq . vorliing,iApjace in the best pos)ih!e state of defence the town oft §iiiscria,. ( wllich they lately conquered. They are repairing- the yolks which ate damaged,. and consiru6ting new ones; they ha,ye caused all people who cannot contii'unte to its defence to quit the,plce. The Russians:have again abandObeit . ltai , arnq and Bazardschik, 'and firing set , to tile, maga zines of the latter place. - BAYONNE,. AUG.- 2.—Scarcely a day passes in which columns of Spanish prisoners of wpr do not p4ss throngh,this city on their way to the interior of ,France.. They are in general escorted by Ger . man -troops ; King Joseph is Still at Madrid, and t-he journey he proposes to make into Andalusia, to inspe& tIT : preparations for the siege of. Cadiz has been deferred.—At Madrid all, is ,quiet bu t there is a very 'numerous garrison ,there, as a' dis covery has b..!en made that - the insurgents had lately formed a plan to attack 'King JOSEPH in the night in his palace. They, liOkyever, soon discovered the im.; practicability of their design, and gaVe it up.. DUTCH PAPLAS. • LILENWARDENT, SEPT.' 9.—On "Thnrsday last, t six o'clock in , the evening, the National Guard s• lemniy took the, oath of fidelity and 'obedience his Majesty,the EMp er o r an d King, the'.sq , are before the hotel of this - town, before M. P. 'CATES WITI4OCLIDER, performing the functions'of Burgo-: master, accompanied by the Secre;ary .HAmEa- SfEN. FRANKPOIIT, SEPT& 9. -- Intelligence front the Frontiers of Turkey, of the date of the 18th Au gust, states as follows According to the order which the Russijn'Gen6- ral-in-Chief Count KAMENSKY, has addressed to his army before Schumla, the corps of General LAN- GittONlmarched on the gth Aug. ,to ihe camp before ludschuck, to reinfUrce the troops carrying on the siege of that place. • There is, how::Ver, no appearance of their in tending to maice another assault. It is, it is said, provisioned for several . months. The Russians, on Last night Paris Papers to the t sth reached town. They' contain the official account 'of the surrender of .Almeida. The details differ very little from those 'which have already reached us. MASSENA says in his letter, that the Portuguese rejoiced at tire idea of being 'liberated ficim' the power of•the Eng lish, and that their joy was increased at the pros peet of being admitted to fight the battles of the Emperor (meaning BUONAPARTE). It must afford infinite satisfaEtion to BUOAtARTE to find foreigners-. so eager to fight his battles, particularly as heis der the ,necessity of having recourse to such ri gorous measures to force his own subjeCts into his service; but he must at the same time find some dif ficulty in reconciling this eagerness of foreigners to enter his service, with the alacrity with' which they seize every opportunity of deserting it. 7 ' , We ,frequently see passages in the letters of &to- NAPA LITE and his Generals, which seem as it' they were written for no other purpose but to outrage the feelings of mankind. MASSENA 'says, ". that the' horrors, committed by the English . are deplorable ; they cut down 'the corn, destroy mills, and make a desert of the unfortunate country they were in vited to defeni. They thus violate the laws of Ile , tions and of war." MASSENA knows very well that it is nor 'contrary to the laWs of ,nations and of war to adopt the .neasures alluded to, aria he knows also that a General commanding a very' inferior and re treating army, would grossly tiegleCt his duty if he did not have recourse to them, however painful • it ,may be to his feelings ; but it is really too much to hear one of BUONAPARTEIS Offietita talk of devastations cnmoritted by the English, when that Usurper and his ferocious Ge nerals • have for two years been guilty of, devasta tion, rapine, and murder, to an extent unparalleled in the' modern annals of the world,/and that too in a Country in actual alliance with France and without an ) Declaration of War. There is scarcely • spot vn the Continent, from the confines of 'Russia to the extremity of Italy, .which the French havetiot,marked . ‘.vith carnage and desolation ; and yet MASSENA accuses the English kith violating the Laws of War, by removing the corn and destroy , ing the mills, to prevent his army from using then - i. There is one expression in MASSENA'S Letter which rather surprised 'us ; he says, " the English are nlaking a desert of a country, they were invited to defend." These words must' have slipped in from , inadvertence, because. BUONAPARTE has for a long time been taking infinite pains to .cont ince the people of France and of Europe that the English armies went to Spain and to Portugal uninvited, arid that the' inhabitants of these Kingdoms- wish . for nothing so much as. the absence of those ob- trusive Acfenders i in order that. tiles' frW • • Without interruption the ,unspeakable blesslnv '-French fraternity arid pi otetliom These f; gpers contain another ludicrotis oc 'of- an exidloit of a, part of 110RAT's flotilla', Ht 117.eapqitart Majesty seems completely to have ' ll to himself an obje c t o f ' r idi cu l e to army, 1°( 1 sooner Was - a . great pOrtiOn o f _hisckstr°) 1, and lie . bad announce d the impossibility of . a tteiv h P t t , ing the invasion, than the soldiers - began (0 5 1,1, out lustily " for Sicily, That the diers shuuldthus make a joke of their new Sover e ; is not extraordinary, .but that MURAT simple enough to.tell the story, is really astonish''' "We ibis morning received Mach Papers t° tld .16th 'inst. Their .contents are unirripoija nt ' 2 chiefly relate-to the l a t e a 6li ons between ,the 1105‘ sians and the Turks, the formation of a Comillissdier for liquidating the D e b ts o f t h e H anover i an s ua the former Government---a notice- of the recur„ eE • fta the 20th gegiment of I n f an t ry to D US4C idOri, a r i an absence of t wo years . in Spainand some l : °° vapodring nons e n ze o f t h e l at e Triumphs of the ller A ° ic ' Neapolitans, aided ‘ by a strong s o u t h..east over the terrified 'English , . who lost four gt los ' the assistance of this A eaaolitan ally.' The Gazette of la s t n —' ight ontains the di;pat— ,bei of Lord W ELLINGTON ; they w ill be found to agree, in every p ar ti cu l ar w i t h the- details t vLich laid,hefore our Readers on Mondiy. The Stoeks experienced a further depressi° llll) d i : Oninium was done at on e time at 8 morning. cent. discount. • Letters from. Plymouth state, that all the s of war at that Port have been ordered to be walled .for five mortis fur foreign' hen ICe. Monday his MAJESTY, and Priticesses'ALTG and SoPariv, took their usual morning's ride. r H o t• Yesterday hi s M AJESTY, the Duke o f BRIDGE, Princesses AUGUSTA' and SoputA, ive airing in Wind so r G r e at Park till bn a past tr: -. 1 1 o'clock. The Royal Party was . accoin ached Laid WALSINGHAM, Lady ELY, Colint AluN sr io Ll General W INYARD , and Colonels TAYLOR DE sir now., rode' Arrived on Monday evening at Augusta --,, Dr the residence of PriilecSq AMBLIA, Sir H. HA' F-It re and Doctors BAILIE and DUNDAS, ,where ttleY„ai rained night, %kith Dr. PoPE, who is colis i '' - o rt in attendance, 'and yesterday miming wai teu h oft their MAJESTIES, with whom they remained an '' l ... making their repoit of Pr;ncess AMELIA'S heol t rb., At t t o'doek they kit Windsor. Her .1.1 ,, yal ness remains much the same.. „„, 1 ?, A French:Gentlemen hiedsmall' l' -- a boat R under pretence ofiping . over to Caen fur the 511°° , 0 i v t in g season. He embarked his landy and hi' Lil o, valuable effe&s, and sailed for our squadron. cef was received en board the Mote, and broug!' l l.. ° e o ;o Portsmouth a few days ago . . We pave not "„ i c, informed of his narhe or rank, but Government ' no doubt, in possession of the particulars. • c fr . .An abstrad of t h e Decree.fOr prohibiting l'' ,,, '' r e he gets from e n t er i ng F rance i s - in - town,' and is t° -- following purpo rt c — that ' nu vessel dare bring P ..0e stingers out of or into France, .without a h ce o hl sign:d by the Emperor. If ani , passenger S t ie land without a license,• he ;.s to b e arres ted by l ' u Prefe6.l,.and sent to Paris. ' • .Wtchresday l ast Si r G EORGE APKENZIE, w iri-1100 e :y departure f or I ce l an d on a scientific tour we —toe announced, returned in safety to Edinburgh• i , o se was accomp inject by two scientifi c G ent l e M en, w' researches have bergattended' with arni,.ie suc ceso, 4 in conseq uence o f the fineness of the weather dtl r ' their stay in Iceland. • .. ' . A very flute vein of silver has lately been .d i ' CL” vered in Cornwall. .. i r Nr on the AsliChurch-road, by Mr. FRANCIS MAI I ', I i I 01 Tewke - sbdry, who undellOok to run half a O' c , in two minutcs and a half. He completed the t2 : B , apparently with ease,' in two minutes and eigh t Se t coeds. The !acts at Slattillo were two to one 0g 3 " . . 0 him. • A shocking accident happened yesteiday nif ing at 4drs.building's, .Chzdsea-ro a d ; a tine ' 9 ll ' four Years 'old, and t ue on l y c hil d of a Mr. B os We: was playing in th e w i n d ow seat of the .first ii °° „ i i i when he fell out of the w i n d ow an d was k i lleci [h t . spot. A f ema l e sell - ant of the name of f e ll hams, hams, in attempitg to stop the fall of the child,,,, out, also, a n d s h e i s not expetied to survive. child fell on the col tier of the pavement, 210 `s literally dished in- piecc-s. • Sunday eveni ng a fire broke out ' a t t h e ,house of ~ Mr. Hart, chinaman,. in Petticoat-lane, .Whitecy , 4 pet, which n ear l y d estro y e d the premiseg and in trade. 4 tire broke out carly on Sunday morning,, l cabinet-maker' s wo ik s h op in Stewart ' s rents, 111 d ry-lane ;• hut by the timely 'arrival of engines, v a plentiful supply o f water, i t was got under olio, out doing further damage than destroying the snr It. originated from a can dl e h aving been left ne some shavings, which communicated to the sail l ?.;. o Afire broke out on M on d ay night., 'between .and ten o'clock, in Kennedy's -court, Newt ° 0 street, Holborn, %which threater,ed d es t ru clion the surrounding houses; but by the 'arrival of t different fire-en g i nes , an d t h e aotivity ' of, the nr e , men, it wa s g ot ' un d er w i thout doing further ` l it mage than destroying part of the premises wher e to 1).-gdo. • Thre e children. ere bed in the r° ° eo where it' broke out, an d wou ld c e rtainly have 01,1 a victims to the devouring flames, had not a per; burst open the d oor and recuett them from the lily' PL , Capt, ev er i ri ved the D Pero, he r lo; ce ss 14 Wi t h lo pe, J salt, b Tht i\ir , 1111 j u, c h e ern sail ed Yest eri Air Con lin toNt, `~l~rOri Ito uNl and T, Sail Po R iestr s the Pa ship h I} OWnl A l . nai I °N; L Lo t t cio-i Arri JoNBs, I) EA boln in, Bell on; on a cr 4. 00 "Altzh u "ar, to co nvoy iro tn a A S t V A • Alba Atltt .1,4 r d t ; rY i; ,:eu t • vi Se, the te ti 14 Port -nth e I , V°ier e 2 1,,, rf 01k h s 4 tilt atet st i"axon "X.Sti IV IWNsi smil t h '" viol( ni g h : " 1 / B eve 1 1: 1 , cha C'entle wc h as so rn (l e " ev ide t ,,nY t i i 4 .1.0, tid y. 4 ;' , br utal er t h i v :e hoinaA Its( ""ieLs. 111:01es of ( ii :ttc')r s to) l e LOR D . iss!s r boa THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. THE PUBLIC are r6siy?ctikilly inf 9 rnied, tha this Theatre will be OPENED TO-MORROW .Thursciay, Sept. 20, iSio, when His Majest'y's Servants wil perform the Com.:dy ,of .THE HYPOCRITE. Sir NMI Lambert, Mr. POWELL; Darnley, Mr. HOLLAND; Charlotte, Mrs. EDWIN. To which will be added, the Farce of THE MAYOR OF GARRATT. SIC Jacob play, Mr. I'ENLEY ; Major Sturgeon, Mr. DO WTON Jerry Sneak, Mr, RUSSELL ; Mrs. Sneak, Miss MELLON. On Saturday the Comedy of the Soldier's Daughter; with the Farce of Honest 't hie ves . MAILS. -• ARR IV ED—I Dublin. DU Cahlil, I'LlSbbil, 2 Wa. . terford. . PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY At TWELVE O'CLOCK. ' Consols - 65 64 . i Ornnium 7 87i •II E 6 U, N. SOLEM QUIS UICIRE FALSUM AUDEAT ? L 0 IV D 0 IV, WEDNESDAY, SEPTE6IBER 19, 1810. i